The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-01-27
STATE AND NrlaHsorHoop

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OF street car service.
New soldiers home at Sandnsky will
be built on the Cottage plan.
VIM Beekmsn, jefferson county farm
or, killed by q falling tree Saturday.
Scotch residents of Warren will cple-
brate the birth of Robert Burns in that
city on the 25!h ins5.
Theodre Allebsch's saloon at FOstOria
WAS destroyed on Saturday night, the
work OF an lncendary.
Zanesville threatens to make her
water works pumping station the most
beautiful spot Oh earth.
A pair of tramps In BUcvrus are being
boarded at the expense CT the county for
stealing saloon Beeper hat.
Akron and Canal Dover, each have a
man who "peeks," aud they threaten all
kinds of vengance on him If caught.
John Smith, sorTy.hearted tramp, is
sarVir e u term In the Summit county
jail for breaking into school hOuse-tO
sleep.
The three Webster murder trials cost
Aahtabula county $28.247 "a, and yet
they didn't have the pleasure of swing
ing him off.
A hoy named Donovan while cOastinR
at Milan ran into wagon with great
force, knocking out one eve and other
wise iDjuIing HIM.
Mrs. Joseph POstlethwaite, who lost
her husband and two sons in the B. & o.
wreck at Republic, will begin suit
against the company for $4,000.
Twenty Newton Falls girls, from 10
to 20 years Of age, made a raid on Gar.
rettsville a few evenings ago and
painted the town very crimson hue
Two children of William j. Dunlap, of
Flushing, were coasting The sled ran
into fence. The boy suffers from
broken jaw and the girl has dilapi-
dated iUger.
A small child of William Portsmouth,
of Sydney, was poisoned by chewing a
peucil of kind marking red and blue.
The child was seriously sick, but rapidly
improved after treatment.
The grand jury of Portage county
found about a dozen indictments
against citizens of RaVennR for selling
whisky to minors and to old chaps In
the habit of getting boozy.
John Brannigan, of Youngstown,
father of the boy who lost his life In the
recent natural gas explosion has
brought su t against the Ohio Gas Fuel
Company, for $4,000 damage.
Loss by the youngstown explosion
was $109 800. Insurance will equal 60
per cent. of the loss exclusive of the
Andrews block on which there was a
loss of $4,000 and insurance Of only
$4,000.
Dan Sims, of Dorset, AshtsbuIa coun.
ty, had foot badly bruised some weeks
ago by COW stepping upoDAt. Erysip-
elias set In and the case became so seri-
GUS 1t was necessary few days ago to
amputate the foot.
Three Flndlay fools engaged In pan
cake eating contest last Friday. Each
deposited So aud the one eating the
greatest number of pancakes In given
time was to have the purse. One ate 40,
another 80 and the third 80.
A sixteen year old son of Mrs. Catha-
rlne Baker, living near CrldersvilIe,
while playing with his young brother,
threw piece of wood which struck the
younger brother In the eye and bursted
it. He will lose sight but probably the
eyeball will heal.
]. H. Shields, of Youngstown, has
brought suit against the Ohio Gas Fuel
COMPANY for So, ,282.70 damages alleged
to have been sustained by the plaintiff
by the recent gas explosion which de-
strOyed the Andrews block. The plain
tiff charges the defendant with negli-
gence. This is the fret OF q series of
suits Of this kind to be instituted on ac-
count of the late catastrophe, and the
result will be looked forward to with in
terest.
In the B & o yards at Newark on Sun.
day evening, an engine was backed
down to remove dead engine, and
Chris DennisOn stepped back against a
post to be out Of the way. There wasn't
sufficient space, and he was caught by
the engine guard and twisted around
the post, being Dinched in a fearful
manner. His sides and back we're
crushed and internal iDju' les caused.
His recovery Is considered impossible.
George Reaser, of Rocky Ridge, was
Instantly killed Friday afternoon while
chopping In the woods about three and
a half miles from home He had chopped
a tree, which In falling lodged on q
large sapllng, which bent way down
with the weight upon 1t. George
stepped up to the sapling to cut 1t out
of the way and struck 1t one blow with
the ak, when, as quick as o flash, the
sapling split and the part which the
blow from the ak had released at the
lower end few up and struck him on
the neck and under jaw, breaking both
neck and jaw.
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